The dilapidated factory, crumbling and overgrown by vegetation, now inhabits that strange space between natural and man-made, historical and contemporary, lovely and sad.
ATOMIC HEART DEVELOPMENT HELL WINDOWS
Urban manufacturing factories are considered beautiful-tastefully articulated on the outside, their large windows flooding their vast internal volumes with light they are frequently rehabilitated into spaces for living and retail or otherwise colonized by local universities. That doesn’t mean, though, that all industrial landscapes are created equal. The hellish Moloch of a petrochemical refinery is as captivating as one of the many abandoned factories one passes by train, and vice versa. What makes industrial landscapes unique is that they fascinate regardless of whether they’re operating.
Hanson to Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier’s fascination with grain elevators, the impact on the arts made by the horrors of production and the landscapes they’ve left behind-arguably necessary evils that make our contemporary way of life possible-spans disciplines and centuries. From William Blake’s “dark Satanic Mills” to Koyaanisqatsi, from the photography of Margaret Bourke-White, Richard Misrach, and David T. While perhaps less popular than horror movies and true-crime podcasts, the spectacle of catastrophe is nonetheless fascinating to the millions of people who spend their evenings binging Seconds from Disaster or Chernobyl.Ī special subset of disaster porn is what we might call infrastructural tragedy: bridge collapses, oil spills, toxic waste dumps, nuclear meltdowns, industrial accidents of all stripes, and, on a slower timescale, the left-behind, dystopian landscapes of post-industrial decay and blight. Why someone with clinical anxiety would spend a great deal of their time reading about the abject man-made horrors of the world-from industrial accidents to engineering catastrophes, from transportation accidents to public health crises-is a question I have asked myself for years. This prescription for knowledge, however, was contraindicated by an existing condition of mine: morbid fascination. Researching the murder rate for our small town (zero murders) and the statistics of prepubescent heart attacks (extraordinarily rare) quelled some of my more ungrounded fears. Despite taking place during the height of the USSR, the game features an alternative history with plenty of advanced technology.When I was an eleven-year-old child struggling with nascent mental illness, I received some perhaps ill-considered advice from one of many therapists: “Knowledge is power.” The idea was that by learning more about the things I feared, I would become less scared about them. Players will take the role of a special agent named P-3, whose mission is to figure out what went wrong in a manufacturing facility that has gone radio silent.
While there is still no release date for Atomic Heart, the Russian developer has been open about the mysterious title’s premise. It also shows off plenty of physics-based combat ranging from shooting guns to stunning foes with melee strikes. Players get to see a strange Soviet base filled with high-tech creations, robotic enemies, and otherworldly creatures. The Atomic Heart gameplay trailer is shorter than 50 seconds, but it manages to cover a great deal within that time. However, the newly released gameplay trailer shows that the promising title is still in development and still looks just as intriguing as ever.
Since then we’ve seen several additional teasers for the game, which has often been compared to BioShock, and reports that the game was in development hell after mass layoffs at developer Mundfish. Atomic Heart first wowed gamers in May of 2018 with its debut trailer, which was filled with Soviet imagery and first-person action.
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